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7 thoughts on “Those days when you just can’t deal”

I’m glad you don’t live on a farm. I dread to think that the rooster might face the fate of your clock or watch.
Another thought – I wonder what happened before the invention of alarm clocks. Aside from farmers, did people just show up for work whenever?

I have to say, waking up to a crowing rooster each morning would — a-hem — ruffle my feathers. He’d be better off flying the coop before I could get my hands on him.

Before alarm clocks, I think most people rolled out of bed at noon, went to work for a couple of hours, and called it a day. That’s why our society is so much more productive now. It’s not that we have better technology — it’s that we’re forced to wake up on time.

Exactly — as hard as it may be to believe, a wretched day of agony, toil and drudgery isn’t exactly the best motivator to get me out of bed.

I’m sorry about your croupier job. You’d think they would have emphasized the dealing part on the job description. “If you want to work here, there’s no two ways about it: you’re going to have to deal.” That’d be an indicator for me to seek employment elsewhere — preferably someplace with more realistic expectations.

I don’t see why not being able to deal isn’t a legitimate excuse from work. You have to be able to deal in order to do the work so if you can’t deal you can’t work. It really doesn’t get any simpler than that. I’ve come to use my phone now for all sorts of alarms, buzzers and sounds to announce things to do during the day so perhaps over time the alarm clock has become less of a nuisance. I haven’t figured out why I still even have the alarm clock when my phone could easily assume its duties much like it did the wristwatch’s. Keeping the alarm clock in service…weird deal.

Exactly! I wish you could talk some sense into my boss. If I can’t deal, then I shouldn’t be at work. It’s like having a cold, in that it’s infectious.

I’ve been using my phone as my alarm clock for so long that I don’t even know how to set my alarm clock anymore. It’s like trying to program my VCR in the 1980s. The clock itself has so many buttons, and each button has multiple functions, so when I try to set the alarm, I end up playing a heavy-metal radio station. I can’t even figure out how to set the clock to the right time. So even if I could set the alarm, I still can’t set the clock.